How to Determine the Doneness of Meat Using Touch Test

Regardless of what type of meat you’re cooking or how you’re cooking the meat, the biggest mistake you can make is overcooking it. Unfortunately, the required cooking time for each cut or piece of meat can vary greatly depending on the equipment used to cook it, the size of the meat, the starting temperature of the meat, and the ratio of meat to bone, etc. Therefore, it is very important to rely more heavily on the touch test or meat thermometers than general cooking time guidelines. Determining the doneness of meat is the most difficult part of any recipe, but luckily, it gets easier with practice.

Over time, you will be able to tell whether or not the meat is cooked through simply by smelling and looking at the meat. (Hint: The meat will be opaque in colour and it will have shriveled away from the bones.) Until then…